[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

Andrew Garrett agarrett at wikimedia.org
Sun Apr 10 23:53:04 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Jim Redmond <jim at scrubnugget.com> wrote:
> The *entire point* of any wiki is that it should be easy to fix most
> problems quickly.  If a newbie makes mistakes - and they always will,
> no matter how awesome our policies and tools are - then experienced
> editors should just fix the mistakes and gently (!) inform the newbie
> why they did what they did.  Not only is that approach faster and
> easier and less bite-y, but it also makes our content better *now*,
> and it gives the newbie a chance to learn how we work.

Sadly, as long as there are buttons that let you revert an edit in one
click (and requests for adminship that count the number of times you
do so) people are going to click the button instead of fixing
templates.

-- 
Andrew Garrett
http://werdn.us/




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